Jo Koy apparently thinks celebrities have to toughen up a bit.
On Friday night time, the comic alluded to his latest Golden Globes internet hosting debacle throughout his first stand-up since he bombed on the award present, calling celebrities “soft” and “marshmallows,” in keeping with Variety.
“Lot a marshmallows, man. They’re delicious, but goddamn, they’re soft,” he mentioned onstage on the Stifel Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri.
“I just come from a different time. I see the changes that are happening. I get it, but goddamn, can we fucking laugh at ourselves?”
Koy then hinted on the award present once more: “I got a feeling none of you motherfuckers watched it, and I’m kinda happy.”
“Oh my god. It feels good to live in this country,” he mentioned. “We get to say what we want to say. Don’t be apologetic about it at all. Be able to…speak your mind.”
Koy by no means talked about the Golden Globes by identify, however he mentioned different subjects all through his stand-up, such because the significance of understanding others and accepting failure, Variety reported.
“I haven’t laughed in four days. I’m so happy,” he mentioned at one level throughout the present. “You guys make me so happy.”
A consultant for Koy didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
Koy acquired backlash after a number of of his jokes on the Golden Globes final weekend fell flat.
Among the jokes that didn’t go over effectively with the viewers was a quip in regards to the NFL and its fixation with Taylor Swift courting Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce.
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL, on the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift,” Koy mentioned at one level throughout the ceremony.
Swift was captured on digicam wanting unamused with Koy’s joke. The comic admitted the next morning in an interview with “GMA3” that his Swift joke was “a little flat.”
Many viewers additionally slammed Koy’s joke in regards to the “Barbie” film as sexist. He described the summer time blockbuster movie as a film about “a plastic doll with big boobies.”
Director Greta Gerwig, although, appeared to take the joke in stride.
“Well, he’s not wrong,” she instructed BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday. “She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on. And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll. Barbie by her very construction has no character, no story, she’s there to be projected upon.”
